NetApp INSIGHT 2025: NetApp Data Engine & AFX Array | Tech Field Day News Rundown: October 15, 2025

Tech Field Day News Rundown

At NetApp INSIGHT 2025, the company announced several major innovations, including the new AI Data Engine, which pre-processes ONTAP data for use with LLMs and AI agents. This platform features advanced metadata management, data synchronization, data governance, and data curation, along with a built-in vector database to streamline AI workloads. NetApp also introduced AFX, a new architecture that allows independent scaling of storage and compute, built around the AFX 1K storage controller, optional DX50 data compute node, and NX224 NVMe enclosure, with support for a wide range of storage protocols. This and more on the Tech Field Day News Rundown with Tom Hollingsworth and Alastair Cooke.

Time Stamps:

0:00 - Cold Open

0:25 - Welcome to the Tech Field Day News Rundown

1:15 - SAP Connects to Google BigQuery

4:14 - Meta and Oracle Tap NVIDIA Spectrum-X for AI Supercomputers

7:51 - Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Launches with Major Updates and New Apps

11:21 - Xsight Labs, Interface Masters Launch Tahoe 3828 EXA Switch

14:51 - Dutch Government Seizes China-Owned Chipmaker Nexperia

18:59 - Ex-VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram Joins Andreessen Horowitz as General Partner

22:29 - NetApp INSIGHT 2025 News and Announcements

22:54 - NetApp AI Data Engine

25:08 - NetApp AFX Array

29:24 - The Weeks Ahead

31:34 - Thanks for Watching